In this feminist critique of the politics of religion, Sheila Jeffreys argues that the renewed rise of religion is harmful to women’s human rights. The book seeks to rekindle the criticism of religion as the founding ideology of patriarchy.
Gender serves as a lens that makes visible important issues in the field of representation: Whom do elected politicians represent? What is at stake in..
Renowed country experts on African politics address the important issue of the increasing number and role of women judges and justices, as judiciaries..
The book brings together scholars of citizenship from across Europe, the Americas and Australia to develop feminist and queer analyses of the relation..
Body/State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has dif..
Drawing from current feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mo..
Departing from James Scott's idea that oppression and resistance are in constant change, Resisting Gendered Norms provides us with a compelling accoun..
This provocative and controversial book explores the consequences of these changes and offers a feminist perspective on the ideology and practice of t..
This book analyses the conditions under which the U.S. women's movement gained access to and response from Congress and the presidency during the batt..
This volume seeks to offer a critical, innovative and empirically driven interrogation of the international political economy of cultures of productio..
This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding sexual violence in war, and its impact focussing in particular on the war in Bosnia-Herzeg..
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion, concentrating on three rece..